Sometimes Just Speaking Is A Nuisance

THE FRIDAY FILE

August 18, 1989

Winter Park commissioners were discussing a proposal to create a nuisance abatement board last week when Mayor David Johnston got a bit tongue-tied. ''Noise abatement, uh, news abatement,'' he began. But he quickly seized the opportunity to turn his slip of the tongue into a good-humored jab at the press. ''Hey, that's a good idea,'' he said with a smile. ''Sometimes I'd like to have a news abatement board.'' The proposed nuisance abatement board is not intended to rid Park Avenue of pickup trucks whose drivers play country music at high volume. Rather, it would allow the city to take action against the owners of property where chronic drug use or sales have taken place.